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Freedom Road
Library
The following autobiographies are part
of the "Woman is the Word" course
taught at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women.
Edited by Jill Kerr Conway
A collection of 25 autobiographical excerpts from American
women,
filling nearly 700 pages. Some come from artists, scientists,
doctors,
writers, and reformers, both those who are famous and those less
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Edited by Marilyn Sewell
An anthology of more than 300 poems
and a few prose pieces centered on various aspects of women's lives.
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By
Harriet A. Jacobs
The autobiographical account of Harriet Jacobs, from her time
of
servitude in North Carolina to her ultimate escape to freedom in
the
North. She describes the various horrors she experienced,
including
spending seven-years in self-imposed exile in a garret
attached to her grandmother's porch.
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By
Wally Lamb
A collection of the writings of 11 imprisoned females, which
Lamb
obtained through a group of women he taught at York
Correctional
Institution. Much like Tarter and her students experienced
with
"Woman in the Word," these women were at first hesitant to write
but
ultimately found the experience triumphant.
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Edited by Judith Scheffler
An anthology compiling the work of 37 prison writers, dating back
from
one who wrote in a Roman prison cell in 203 AD to one in a
Siberian
labor camp in the 1930s. The women describe prison life in the
form of
memoirs, diaries, letters, essays, fiction, and poetry. Winner
of the
Susan Koppelman Award for Outstanding Anthology. |
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By
Nawal Saadawi
A woman sentenced to die for killing a
pimp in a Cairo street gives an
account of her life, from the days of her village childhood to
those
when as a prostitute in the city. According to the New York
Times Book Review, "Saadawi writes with directness and
passion,
transforming the systematic brutalization of peasants and of
women
into powerful allegory." |
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By
Audre Lorde
Lorde began writing this journal six
months after her radical
mastectomy to describe how she coped with the crisis. It
was first
published in 1980, but the new edition includes posthumous
tributes to
Lorde from a
dozen writers and poets.
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Last updated December 9, 2004
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